Laura, Chapter 7

(Nikki and Rita had fallen in love and decided to live in Rita’s house, while Jack lived with Laura. Richie had been a close friend, and his friendship led to Jack’s ass-fucking Laura and Nikki’s ass-fucking Rita. In this chapter we recount what happened to them all as they grew older.)

We had all crossed our fingers hoping that Rita’s eating only organic natural foods with minimum cooking and processing, getting a moderate amount of exercise every day, and getting plenty of sleep, would give her an excellent chance of resisting a return of her cancer. It probably did, but her cancer did return after a few years. This time, it hit her pancreas, kidneys, and liver. She refused radiation or chemotherapy. She refused a life of being, as she called it, a doctor’s toy. In the last weeks of her life I took her to a quiet mountain resort, while Jack stayed with Laura in the city, and Rita and I spent a lot of time walking in the woods, eating in our room, and lovemaking. I called Jack and Laura when the end was near, and they both came up to the resort to be near us. Rita passed away in my arms two days after Jack and Laura had come up. Jack was sitting on the bed caressing her face and Laura was holding her hand. And I think that made up for a lot of the physical pain that Rita must have been feeling as she approached death. At her funeral, friends seemed to come out of the woodwork, all remarking about her gentleness and softness.

By that time I had graduated from school, and Jack had put me in contact with people to get an engineering job with the city, while Richie got an excellent job with an engineering firm.